Nice overview of various AI products
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An opinionated guide to which AI to use to do stuff
The Summer 2026 Edition
Every few months, I write a guide for people who want to use AI to do stuff. This time, a lot has changed, in part because what it means to “use AI to do stuff” encompasses so much more “stuff” than it used to. Until recently, using AI meant talking to a model through a chatbot in a constant back-and-forth conversation. Now, it means using an agentic system, where the AI is capable of doing the equivalent of many hours of real human work in one go by combining the brains of an AI model with a set of tools that let it plan and act for you. Basically, an agentic system gives an AI a computer to use.
https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/an-opinionated-guide-to-which-ai-b22
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I have found it to be very useful. It helped me parse Mr wtg's rapidly evolving and complex medical situation earlier this year; I could never have figured out on my own what it did for me in seconds.
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Link to video
Ex-banker who has a global understanding of the financial systems, national, international, and trans-national, their history, the laws pertaining to them, and about all of the alternative financial systems that now exist, or might exist in the immediate future, around the globe.
Do you see what I did there?
She will explain to you exactly how AI systems can steal your life's savings.
She will tell you about the BIS. If you don't know about the BIS, maybe you should.
She will tell you practically everything there is to know about global financial systems, about how they connect to each other, about their history, and about the directions in which they are headed, and why.
bolded text We shouldn't be treating AI as a shiny object that must be good because it's technology.bolded text
I'm sorry but Bernard had this one right.
Will nobody think of AI and hold the data centers and all of the existential problems they bring , and bring without the consent of people, and against the expressed wishes of them?
I don't know. Maybe it's not necessary to breathe clean air, maybe it's fine for the water to be poisoned. Maybe people don't need any water to drink at all.
AI? Where are you?/ i
Catherine Austin Fitts warns that artificial intelligence could automate the power to stop people using their own money. She calls this the third lock: a system in which a financial intermediary can block a transaction even when the buyer and seller agree to it. Starting with the difference between cash and a bank payment, she explains how existing restrictions can require human review. Her concern is what happens when surveillance and algorithms can make those decisions automatically across a much larger financial systems."
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The idea that technology necessarily and forever makes our lives better is a hoax.
It doesn't necessarily make our lives better.
It makes our lives different.
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Good article. I knew things were progressing quickly but maybe not this quickly.
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